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the-raven-evermore wrote:I am not having trouble with any other sites though.I searched for a doll and came up with stone carvings worth thousands...at least five times. I did not even think they were nice stone carvings. None of the same search words involved. This is actually my posting I.d. and I have been on since 2009. I have never had these problems before.
Whenever anything like that happens to anything I'm trying to operate, I always think "yup.. mice in the engine." because years ago I lived in a big wilderness area, and one day when I started my old car, there was a weird popping-pinging noise coming from under the hood. Some mouse (or perhaps a chipmunk) had started storing hickery nuts in the engine, and somehow they kept being pinged up against the underside of the hood. ??? Weird. 
the-raven-evermore wrote:I am not having trouble with any other sites though.I searched for a doll and came up with stone carvings worth thousands...at least five times. I did not even think they were nice stone carvings. None of the same search words involved. This is actually my posting I.d. and I have been on since 2009. I have never had these problems before.
Whenever anything like that happens to anything I'm trying to operate, I always think "yup.. mice in the engine." because years ago I lived in a big wilderness area, and one day when I started my old car, there was a weird popping-pinging noise coming from under the hood. Some mouse (or perhaps a chipmunk) had started storing hickery nuts in the engine, and somehow they kept being pinged up against the underside of the hood. ??? Weird.
the-raven-evermore wrote:Does ebay pay rock stars? Just wondering because every one of you I have come across in my journeys in both accounts has seemed like an advertisement for ebay. Excuse me if I am wrong. I have had books on ebay for months that sold on amazon in one day for one third more of the ebay price. I am not saying everything should be put on Amazon though.
I think it's because most of the rockstars are old hands at eBay, many having been here from the early years, have build some pretty extensive and profitable businesses here over the years, and so LIKE eBay, because they know how to make it work for them. Being an eBay seller has helped many of them raise their families and pay their mortgages. They're successful sellers on eBay, so they're pretty PRO in their attitudes.
So many newbies come here with problems, and sometimes sellers who are fairly experienced, but showing up here on a non-selling account (so can't tell up front just how experienced they are here) but obviously they seem to be having a problem. So in trying to help out, advice a poster doesn't want to hear (often it's that they made a bad choice in dealing with their problem lol) anyway.. that advice can make them feel put-upon. Or they may feel they're being talked down to. Or their concern is being dismissed. Lots of things... but mostly rockstars and everyone on the discussion boards are interested in helping, not causing any embarassment or discomfort.
Most of us enjoy the give and take of discussion and reading so many different viewpoints on the subjects that pop up here. It's that *learning never stops* possibility where we get to try to view things from a different perspective than we've had, etc.
No, rockstars aren't paid by eBay, unless you count the incomes they make from being selling members here. And a whole ton of them have not only sold for years, but sell on several different online venues as well as often in shops out of their own hometowns, etc.
I hear you about books that will sit on eBay for ages and sell promptly on Amazon. And that works both ways, with eBay being the venue that beats out the Amazon sales on lots and lots of offerings! You just never know. Many selling members here have accounts and sell on both venues, so they soon get to know which places to focus which areas of merchandise they want to move currently.
Good luck to you in your business, wherever you enjoy a presence.
